Murray Bartlett has won or been nominated for more than a dozen acting awards, but the one he’ll receive Saturday hits closest to home. Six years after moving to the […]
Film
FILM FESTIVAL
Making Sense of Miasma
Filmmaker on the Edge Ari Aster specializes in realistic paranoia
Ari Aster, 38, represents a new generation of filmmakers unafraid to plunge into the darkest corners of human experience. He will receive the Filmmaker on the Edge Award at this […]
INDIE SCREEN
A Bounty Comes to the Big Screen in Provincetown
Life, art, legends, and dough are the stars at this year’s film festival
In the opening scene of the documentary Everything Moves, which is having its world premiere at the Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) next week, a ladybug finds its way from […]
METANARRATIVE
Family Pictures
Thomas Allen Harris brings his documentary approach to the question of our queer ancestors
Photographer and filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris founded Digital Diaspora Family Reunion (DDFR) in 2009 as a vehicle for audio-visual events incorporating community organizing, performance, virtual gathering spaces, and storytelling. Ten […]
INDIE SCREEN
No Country for Old Filmmakers
Though they’re largely overlooked, two veteran directors create cinema gems
I missed 85-year-old Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis last year — the closest IMAX screen was a couple of hours away from Truro, and I didn’t want to see such a […]
VIRTUAL REALITY
Bondage and Disentanglement in Three Dimensions
Carlos Zerpa focuses on underdogs in his political animations
Carlos Zerpa came to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown from Venezuela as a visual arts fellow expecting to work on an animated film that he’s been developing for […]
HALF-REMEMBERED
Mengwei Ma Blurs the Bounds of Reality
A filmmaker fills the gaps with feeling and memory
On a Sunday afternoon in the cold, milky light of late March, Mengwei Ma, a visual arts fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, is making a film […]
DOCUMENTARY FILM
Deafness as an Experience of Isolation and Connection
In Michael Cestaro’s Signs From the Mainland, Martha’s Vineyard is a deaf architect’s place of yearning
A seed was planted in Michael Cestaro’s mind when he heard Jeffrey Mansfield, a 2021 fellow at Provincetown’s Twenty Summers, deliver a lecture at the Hawthorne Barn. Mansfield, an architect […]
TRANSLATABILITY
José De Sancristóbal Questions the Object of the Subject
An artist looks through the lens at surveillance, identity, and freedom
Upon entering his studio at the Fine Arts Work Center, one might easily imagine that José De Sancristóbal is one of the writing fellows here for the winter. The walls […]
SELF-PORTRAIT
Cherrie Yu Is a Perpetual Student
In her multidisciplinary practice, a FAWC fellow is inspired by daily routines
In 2022, when Cherrie Yu was a few years out of graduate school, she landed a year-long residency at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio’s visual arts program in Dumbo, Brooklyn. But upon […]
INDIE SCREEN
Predicting the Oscars as the Industry Shrinks
This year offers neither a bang nor a whimper
Feature films today are in transition: the one-time all-American mass medium of theatrical moviegoing is rapidly becoming a niche activity. Most people stream movies at home or on their devices. […]
INDIE SCREEN
The Golden Ambitions of Cartoons
Surveying the five animated features nominated for this year’s Oscars
Animation is not just for children. That’s certainly true of the five feature films nominated for an Academy Award in the animated category this year, although the two most likely […]
INDIE SCREEN
From Bauhaus to Art House
Modernist filmmakers ride Oscar’s red carpet
Given the state of transphobia and xenophobia today, I’m not sure that having a trans lead in Emilia Pérez who starts out as a Mexican drug cartel boss is going […]
BIG PICTURE
A Moment, Captured or Created
Liam Crivellaro is looking for something under the surface
Liam Crivellaro took his first photos when he was 14 or 15 — he was riding BMX and wanted to document it. He lives in Chatham, but Wellfleet, where he […]
INDIE SCREEN
Gazing at Stars When Times Are a-Changing
Two new prize-worthy films look at an artist and ecology anew
Just who is Bob Dylan? It’s impossible to pin down the man born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minn. in 1941, because his persona as songwriter and performer has always […]
